GRAND RAPIDS — Former WCSG radio host John Richard Balyo admitted today that he and a second man handcuffed a 12-year-old boy to a motel bed, sexually abused him and took nine photos during the April encounter.

"I did take images of a child and they were sexually explicit involving bondage and nudity,'' Balyo admitted today in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids. "I performed sex acts as described. I knew it was wrong.''

PENSACOLA, Fla. -
The parents of a Panhandle 2-year-old have been charged with negligent manslaughter after their toddler died from untreated burns.

Officials say the 2-year-old boy died Sunday.

Christopher L. Redd, 39, and Jennifer Gail Perry, 29, were charged with negligent manslaughter for not reporting that their toddler allegedly had scalded himself with hot water from the kitchen stove, according to the Pensacola Police Deparment arrest reports.

The body of a male adolescent was found Sunday night in the wheel-well of a U.S. Air Force C-130 at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany after the plane had arrived from a flight that originated in Africa, a U.S. official confirmed today.

The body was found trapped in a compartment above the aircraft’s rear landing gear, Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said.

Four people were charged with capital murder on Tuesday in the beating death of a 24-year-old USC graduate student, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Jonathan DelCarmen, 19, Andrew Garcia, 18, Alberto Ochoa, 17, and Alejandra Guerrero, 16, are charged with one count each of murder with the special circumstance of murder during an attempted robbery, prosecutors said.

Abigail "Abby" Hernandez, the New Hampshire teen who returned home last week after disappearing in October, sat in the front row of a courtroom on Tuesday as her accused kidnapper, Nathaniel Kibby, appeared before a judge.

Kibby, 34, did not enter a plea and the judge ordered him held on $1 million bail as police continued to search the man's Gorham, New Hampshire, trailer home.

DUNDEE, Ore. -- An Oregon mother whose disappearance has sparked a massive search was captured on surveillance video filling up her car at a gas station July 24, the evening of her disappearance, police said Monday.

Jennifer Huston, 38, of Dundee, Ore., left her home around 5:45 p.m. that day, Newberg-Dundee Police Captain Jeff Kosmicki said at a press conference. She was first seen on video at a bank around 6 p.m. withdrawing money, Kosmicki said.

PHOENIX (CBS) - A top neuroscientist pointed an AR-15 assault rifle in the direction of a mother and her teenage daughter inside one of the busiest terminals at Sky Harbor International Airport on Friday, police told CBS affiliate KPHO.

Peter Nathan Steinmetz, 54, was taken into custody in Terminal 4 shortly after 10:30 a.m. and booked into the Maricopa County Jail.

SALISBURY, NC (WBTV) -
The Rowan County Sheriff is answering some questions in the case of missing teenager Erica Parsons, despite canceling a schedule briefing on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the case.

A briefing was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon to talk about the Erica Parsons case, but the briefing was canceled Tuesday morning.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The parents of a baby boy who was taken from a Wisconsin home and later found in sub-zero temperatures say they trusted the relative now accused of taking him so much that they initially didn't suspect her.

The sister of Stacy Peterson, the Bolingbrook mother of two who vanished nearly seven years ago, said she plans to file paperwork with the state to have her sister declared legally dead.

"That way it's known that she didn't run off," Cassandra Cales recently told the Southtown Star, countering the contention long-made by Peterson's husband, Drew Peterson, that she ran off with another man in October 2007.

The grandmother was taken into custody at a Chesapeake hotel Sunday morning. She tells NewsChannel 3 she called police to let them know they were there, after learning from a family member that police from Missouri were looking for them.

When Omeni found out Sabrina had been listed as a missing and endangered child, she says she couldn’t believe it.

NBA legend and former Philadelphia 76er Charles Barkley has offered to pay for the funerals of three young siblings killed after a carjacking went awry in the city last week, according to District Attorney Seth Williams.

Ten-year-old Joseph Thomas Reed, his 15-year-old sister Keiearra Williams and their 7-year-old brother Terrence Moore were struck and killed Friday when a carjacked SUV plowed into the church-run fruit stand where they were volunteering on a street corner in the Tioga section of the city.

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. — Four days after her teen daughter was found murdered on a nearby recreation trail, Jennifer Millsap sat in a plastic white lawn chair outside her Armada Village home Monday, struggling to comprehend what was happening.

The body of 14-year-old April Millsap was found Thursday evening, hours after she disappeared while taking her dog for a walk on the popular Macomb Orchard Trail near her home in northern Macomb County.

FALL RIVER, Mass. -- A judge has rejected a motion by lawyers for Aaron Hernandez to dismiss charges stemming from the 2013 slaying of a Boston man whose body was found near the former New England Patriots player's home.

Hernandez's lawyers argued that prosecutors hadn't shown probable cause to sustain the murder charge against Hernandez in the death of Odin Lloyd and hadn't presented any evidence or motive for the slaying.

The former Portuguese police chief accused of libelling Madeleine McCann's parents is planning to sue them back, it emerged today.

Goncalo Amaral, who was axed from the investigation into the missing three-year-old, accused Kate and Gerry McCann of causing him 'enormous damage' and the effect was 'moral, professional and financial'

A missing Oregon mom's father, who is a former homicide investigator, told FoxNews.com he is helping police piece together the final moments before his daughter vanished, and described his son-in-law as "solid as a rock."

Investigators are poring over security footage from businesses along a Portland, Ore., highway Monday for any clues into the disappearance of 38-year-old Jennifer Huston, who was last seen four days ago buying gas, her father, Bill Turner, told FoxNews.com.

ARMADA, MI (AP) - Police in southeastern Michigan released a sketch Sunday of a tall white man they call a "person of interest" in the killing of a 14-year-old girl who disappeared while walking her dog and whose body was found in a drainage ditch.

State and Armada police held a news conference asking for public help in tracking down the killer of April Millsap.

A missing Oregon mom's father, who is a former homicide investigator, told FoxNews.com he is helping police piece together the final moments before his daughter vanished, and described his son-in-law as "solid as a rock."

Investigators are poring over security footage from businesses along a
Portland, Ore., highway Monday for any clues into the disappearance of
38-year-old Jennifer Huston, who was last seen four days ago buying gas,
her father, Bill Turner, told FoxNews.com.

A 34-year-old man was charged Monday with kidnapping Abigail Hernandez, the New Hampshire teen whose case has brought a national spotlight to the small mountain town of Conway, where she went missing nine months ago and was returned to her family last week.

Nathaniel E. Kibby was arrested at his home in Gorham, N.H., the state
attorney general’s office said in a statement. He was scheduled to be
arraigned in Conway on Tuesday afternoon.

LAHORE, Pakistan --
Pakistani police say a mob has burned down several homes belonging to minority Ahmadi Muslims in the country's east, killing a woman and her two granddaughters following rumors about blasphemous postings on Facebook.

Police official Zeeshan Siddiqi says the rioting in the city of Gujranwala erupted late Sunday after claims that an Ahmadi had posted a blasphemous photo of the Kaaba - the cube-shaped structure in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that observant Muslims around the world face in prayer five times a day.

An independent inquiry has been launched into the death of Mikaeel Kular, the three-year-old boy battered to death by his mother, after it emerged he had been in and out of foster care.

Fife council confirmed it had ordered a significant case review after Mikaeel's mother, Rosdeep Adekoya, admitted on Friday to killing him at their Edinburgh flat in January after becoming enraged when he fell sick, and then covering up his death.

The Long Island nanny accused of leaving a 3-year-old girl inside a hot, parked car while she shoplifted from a Target store last month was indicted Friday on reckless endangerment and petit larceny charges, according to the district attorney's office .

Nassau County police say Christine Nunes left a child in the back seat of a locked Dodge Caravan while she went into a Target store at the Broadway Mall in Hicksville on June 24.

PHILADELPHIA —
Two men carjacked a woman at gunpoint but soon sped out of control, killing three children Friday as they plowed into a group selling fruit to raise money for their church, Philadelphia police said.

Two women, including the mother of the three siblings killed, were critically injured.

Celina Cass was last seen hunched over a computer in her family's apartment in West Stewartstown on July 25, 2011. Three years later, no one has been charged with her death, which investigators have called a homicide.

As of the weekend, there were no public memorial services planned to commemorate the third anniversary of Celina's death, and resident Shannon Towle hopes it stays that way.

Jenna Montgomery and Jess Taylor both pleaded guilty to kidnapping, robbery and assault charges. Montgomery will spend nearly 10 years in prison for the crime. Taylor was sentenced to more than seven years.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- On June 25th, the family of 31-year-old Lisa Green says she stepped outside at her father's home on Gilmore Lane. She never came back inside, and since that time they say they’ve heard nothing.

SANFORD --
Rachel Fryer, the Sanford mother charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter, has reached out to News 13, saying in a handwritten letter from jail that she's behind bars for a crime she didn't commit.

In the letter, included below in its entirety ▼, Fryer asks for help, saying she wants the public to know she is not guilty of killing her daughter, Tariji Gordon.

Texas woman Elizabeth Ramsey, a stepmother who starved her 10-year-old stepson to death, received life in prison for the crime. The 33-year-old must serve 30 years in prison before she can be eligible for parole.

Ramsey’s sentence was handed down Wednesday by a Dallas County jury, which took less than an hour to find the woman guilty of intentional serious injury to a child in the death of Johnathan Ramsey.

His own words, told to police moments after he shot a 19-year-old woman on his Dearborn Heights porch, suggest Theodore Wafer may not have intended to fire his gun the night Renisha McBride was killed.

Prosecutors played his comments in Wayne County Circuit Court today during the second day of testimony in Wafer’s trial.

The shooting that killed an 11-year-old Chicago girl who was with friends at a sleepover was in retaliation for an argument between a pair of 14-year-olds earlier that day, police Supt. Garry McCarthy said late Thursday morning.

"That day turned my whole life upside down, turned people against me, put everything I do at risk" he told WBTV.

"I thought personally that while I was up there, they would actually find her, turn around, look at me and say there she is - she's living in this city" he said. "I was going to walk back home. Go back home. But then it changed. It didn't come out the way I thought."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -
The State Attorney's Office has released two letters Michael Dunn wrote to his daughter last year, before his trial that ended with convictions on three counts of attempted second-degree murder and shooting into a vehicle, and a hung jury on the murder charge in the shooting death of Jordan Davis.

Philip Chism, 15, made sure he wasn’t being watched, took off his footwear to muffle his footsteps, then crouched down as he made his way along a corridor before following the 29-year-old woman into the locker room at Metro Youth Services facility in Boston on June 2, prosecutor Mark Zanini told a judge in Boston Juvenile Court.

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A south Mississippi man has been charged with capital murder in the slaying and sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl who was taken from an apartment complex last week.

Gulfport Police Chief Leonard Papania says charges were filed Wednesday against 29-year-old Alberto Julio Garcia of Gulfport, identified several days ago as a person of interest in the slaying of Ja-Naya (juh-NAY-uh) Thompson.

A judge has ruled against providing Marissa Alexander, 33, with a new “Stand your ground” hearing, reports Salon.

Alexander was originally convicted and sentenced in 2012 to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot during a confrontation with her abusive husband, Rico Gray. The conviction was overturned on appeal.

WYOMING, Mich. – After an intensive investigation into the murders of Charles Oppenneer, Brooke Slocum and their unborn baby Audi Lynn, the home of the man police believe is responsible is now the focal point of the investigation.

The first-degree murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez in the shooting death of Odin L. Lloyd in 2013 will now begin in early 2015, with jury selection set to start Jan. 9, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Questions surround the return of a teenage girl who disappeared on her walk home from school nine months ago.

Abigail Hernandez vanished when she left her school in Conway, New Hampshire, on Oct. 9 and, aside from one letter to her mother this winter, there had been no indication by officials that there was any trace of her until she was reunited with her parents on Sunday.

A 48-year-old married father of two has been charged in the strangling deaths of two women whose naked bodies were found in the woods on Long Island more than 20 years ago, and police believe he may be responsible for another slaying around the same time, prosecutors say.

John Bittrolff was arrested at his home in Manorville early Monday on two counts of second-degree murder after detectives linked his DNA to the decades-old crime scenes, Suffolk County police say.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department announced Monday that investigators searched a property on the 700 block of Geronimo Trail in Yucca Valley on the 4th of July, the same block where White Rock Horse Rescue is located.

Sheriff detectives say they found a destructive device inside, belonging to 24-year old Christopher Brandon Lee. Lee was arrested and released on July 6th after posting bail.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Law enforcement officials say they have new locations to comb for clues in the search for Erin Corwin, a pregnant Marine wife who vanished three weeks ago near the southern California desert Marine base of Twentynine Palms.

TAMPA — Not even 4 months old, Emanuel Wesley Murray Jr. was found dead on the side of Interstate 275 five years ago, covered head to toe in “road rash,” a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday morning.

The infant died of “multiple and severe” head injuries, Assistant State
Attorney Ronald Gale said in his opening statement in the trial of
Richard McTear Jr. McTear is charged with killing the baby, the son of
his girlfriend, Jasmine Bedwell, in a jealous rage.

An East Texas woman walked into the headquarters of the Athens Police Department at about 8:45 a.m. Monday and told officials she had killed her 4-year-old daughter, officials with the Henderson County Sheriff's Office say.

Police said Monday that 25-year-old Stacie Marie Parsons was arrested after deputies with the Henderson County Sheriff's Office found the woman's daughter dead inside her home on Henderson County Road 1500.

The paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius was found in a night club while his trial is still on. He is "lonely and alienated: according to his family.

The Sunday Times reported the Oscar Pistorius murder case trial as it cited an unnamed businessman who claimed that the "Blade Runner" arrived uninvited to his party in Illovo, Johannesburg on April 6, 2013.

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Authorities say a 7-month-old boy attacked and killed by a dog in southwestern Ohio was from Indiana.

The Montgomery County coroner's office in Ohio said Monday that autopsy results showed Jonathon Quarles Jr., of Indianapolis, died of multiple injuries from the attack. Police say the baby's step-grandmother was watching him for the day in Dayton when her dog attacked and killed him Sunday afternoon.

Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law will once again be no refuge for Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman who fired what she said was a warning shot near her abusive husband, Rico Gray, and his two sons.

On Friday, Circuit judge James H. Daniel denied her request for a new hearing to seek immunity from prosecution under the law, finding that the legislature’s June revision to include such warning shots ”cannot be applied retroactively” for a new Stand Your Ground hearing.

MIAMI (WSVN) -- A South Florida man accused of slashing the throat of an 11-year-old girl after the child allegedly convinced her mother to break up with him is scheduled to appear in bond court Tuesday.

DETROIT, MI -- The tedious process of selecting a jury in the case against Theodore Wafer, the 55-year-old Dearborn Heights man accused in the porch-killing of Detroit teen Renisha McBride, could take up to four days, Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway says.

PLYMOUTH, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A mother is still looking for answers five months after her daughters disappearance in California. 23-year-old Danielle Bertolini was reported missing February 19th in Fortuna, California. Her mother, Billy-Joe Dick, believes her daughter is no longer alive - but refuses to give up the search.

Maryland parents John and Janice Land are accused of locking their 22-year-old sons with autism inside a basement room of their Rockville home for six years.

According to documents obtained by NBC Washington, Montgomery County police uncovered a room in the basement locked by a deadbolt when they were executing an unrelated search warrant at the Lands' home on Crawford Drive last Thursday.